Hall of Fame jockeys, TVG’s on-air talent, and other prominent racing personalities will once again take to the phones Oct. 17 as TVG and The Jockeys Guild host the third annual telethon to raise money for the Permanently Disabled Jockeys Fund.

Maryland, New Mexico, and Ontario are the only jurisdictions among the top 10 producing state/provinces to report increases in foal crop for 2021.

J. Keeler Johnson handicaps the Alcibiades Stakes (G1), Breeders’ Futurity (G1), and Keeneland Turf Mile (G1) on opening weekend at Keeneland.

The 12th annual event supports aftercare.

Horologist’s 2021 campaign has featured a couple of trips that did not work out as planned.

Winchell Thoroughbreds and L and N Racing’s son of Tapit is expected to improve off his first two-turn experience in the Iroquois Stakes (G3) at Churchill Downs.

Irish-born grade-1 winning trainer Eoin Harty Harty consented to another term as California Thoroughbred Trainers president this year at the head of a nine-member board of directors.

Gulfstream debuted its new, one-mile-and-70-yard Tapeta course Sept. 30 to become the only North American pari-mutuel facility sporting all three types of surfaces for racing: dirt, turf, and synthetic.

Following a summer plea change to guilty by embattled trainer Jorge Navarro in a horse-doping case, one of his alleged co-conspirators, Mid-Atlantic trainer Marcos Zulueta, seems ready to follow suit.

Spendthrift Farm’s Lord Nelson, the three-time grade 1-winning son of Pulpit and a freshman sire of 2021, was euthanized Oct. 7 after a long battle with laminitis. He was 9.